git/contrib
Philippe Blain 6e32f718ff completion: add and use __git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section
In a previous commit we removed some hardcoded config variable names from
function __git_complete_config_variable_name in the completion script by
introducing a new function,
__git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section.

The remaining hardcoded config variables are "second level"
configuration variables, meaning 'branch.<name>.upstream',
'remote.<name>.url', etc. where <name> is a user-defined name.

Making use of the new existing --config flag to 'git help', add a new
function, __git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section. This
function takes as argument a config section name and computes the
corresponding second-level config variables, i.e. those that contain a
'<' which indicates the start of a placeholder. Note that as in
__git_compute_first_level_config_vars_for_section added previsouly, we
use indirect expansion instead of associative arrays to stay compatible
with Bash 3 on which macOS is stuck for licensing reasons.

As explained in the previous commit, we use the existing pattern in the
completion script of using global variables to cache the list of
variables for each section.

Use this new function and the variables it defines in
__git_complete_config_variable_name to remove hardcoded config
variables, and add a test to verify the new function.  Use a single
'case' for all sections with second-level variables names, since the
code for each of them is now exactly the same.

Adjust the name of a test added in a previous commit to reflect that it
now tests the added function.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-12 09:43:42 -08:00
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buildsystems Merge branch 'js/doc-unit-tests-with-cmake' 2023-12-09 16:37:47 -08:00
coccinelle config: pass kvi to die_bad_number() 2023-06-28 14:06:40 -07:00
completion completion: add and use __git_compute_second_level_config_vars_for_section 2024-02-12 09:43:42 -08:00
contacts
credential Merge branch 'mh/credential-erase-improvements-more' 2023-08-28 09:51:16 -07:00
diff-highlight perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0 2023-11-17 07:26:32 +09:00
emacs
examples
fast-import
git-jump git-jump: admit to passing merge mode args to ls-files 2023-10-05 12:55:38 -07:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git
hooks
long-running-filter
mw-to-git Merge branch 'tz/send-email-negatable-options' 2023-12-09 16:37:51 -08:00
persistent-https
remote-helpers
stats
subtree contrib/subtree: convert subtree type check to use case statement 2023-11-11 09:21:00 +09:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode
vscode
workdir
README doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issues 2023-10-05 12:55:38 -07:00
coverage-diff.sh
git-resurrect.sh
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh

README

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there is general interest (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc